Something satisfying...

[lithera]

About being right.

In this case it isn't anything important. Just comic book stuff. But it is very, very nice to know a character well enough to know what has to come next. It also makes me very happy to know that I'll be seeing much more of that character in the future.

And I'm coming back to my thing about chracter death. It sucks to lose characters we love. It does. It doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. BUT! In a world such as comic books there is no saying who may or many not come back at some point. Also, it is very important to me that character deaths in comic books /mean/ something. For example - Jean Grey's first death was a good death, I think. Her coming back.... I don't know. It made it mean less. I'm not sure about Jason Todd yet but I'm still leaning toward it being lame to have brought him back..... but with what is happening in the universe, it makes sense. The door between life and death is broken...

So. I'm not going to talk about specifics because I know there are people who are hating all this. I'm still on the side of really liking it.

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about Jean Grey's first death. The fact that she dies and comes back and dies and comes back because she's Phoenix is lame and cool at the same time.

The Jason Todd thing however irks me. I paid good money to vote him dead. He should've stayed that way or disclaimered it [because I was younger and more naive about the revolving pearly gates then and it didn't occur to me that copyrights and other stuff would require bringing characters back from the dead so the companies wouldn't lose their rights to the characters.]

[angrylemur.livejournal.com]

I'm on the side that really, really hates it when people kill off comic book characters. But - I swear! - it's not just because I love the characters and get way too attached to them sometimes because I'm strange and also a total dork.

Here's why I really hate it: It's bad writing.

Especially lately.

Lately, it seems like when a character's backstory gets too complicated to explain in under two exposition bubbles, they kill them off. When they feel there's nowhere to go with a character, they simply kill them, and that's stupid. Because there's always a story to tell. ALWAYS. If you can't think of one yourself, it is a FACT that someday someone else will, and killing off a character ruins that for the people who could tell that story. It's a selfish, lazy way of sweeping something under the rug.

Yes, we can always bring characters back - but that's lame, too. Death needs to have some weight, or how are we supposed to care when a character is in mortal danger? Look at what's happened to the Hawkman series: they recently killed Carter Hall, and sales actually dropped, because everyone knew he would just be back two issues later. After a certain point, people just stop suspending their disbelief. The fact that we can say, "Oh, well, it's comics, they can always come back" is proof that this is a problem. (yes, I know you just said that. I just felt the need to reiterate it, because it's a pet peeve of mine as well.)

It just strikes me as completely unnecessary lately - especially in DC. And the aftermath of the deaths sucks too - or, it WOULD suck, but THERE IS NONE. NONE AT ALL. Since Shayera's been killed, it's been mentioned ONCE in passing in a freaking Outsiders issue (no one in Outsiders even knew Shayera, by the by). Carter and Kendra? Could not seem to care less. THAT is just bad writing, I don't care how you spin it, if she's coming back or not, whatever - if you DO kill a character off, for the love of god MILK IT. MILK IT UNTIL WE'RE SICK OF IT. IT'S DRAMA. DRAMA HOOKS PEOPLE IN TEN TIMES MORE THAN GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AND CHARACTER DEATHS.

And that's my rant on the subject. Sorry to go on, but it just so happens that I was talking about this exact same thing with my friend Ken at work today, and we got to bitching about it so yeah. It's sort of all on my mind already. I'll stop cluttering up your journal with my random junk now.

Really, I will.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

I'm loving this Infinite Crisis thing. I recently read the collected storyline where Blue Beetle dies...and I liked it. It was appropriate, it was sad, and it did affect people. (Possibly is still affecting people; I'm not sure.) Wonder Woman's murder of Maxell Lord, again with the appropriate, again with teh ramifications, again with teh having to deal with it.

But before this...Jason Todd was the big black hole in the Bat-family. Everyone knew about his death, everyone had feelings about it, and it's still affecting them years upon years down the line. Bats is still screwed up about it, Tim still has it in the back of his head, and I'm fairly certain Nightwing still feels occassionally that if he hadn't given up being Robin, Jason wouldn't have died. But no one else (except maybe, just maybe, Hal Jordan) had that kind of effect in the DC universe. Which is why I'm kind of ticked that Jason and Hal are back; their deaths changed people, like deaths do. That shouldn't be screwed with.